By means of transportation known to a particular vehicle or craft whose main function is to transport both people and animals and objects from one place to another.

Since the beginning of time man seeking new methods to be able to move around without having to walk. Thus arose, for example, the wheel or boats.

The wheel drove in principle the appearance of the carriage. Subsequently resulted in vehicles such as bicycles, car or bus. With the passage of time would appear transport aircraft and even the space.

Types of transport

The means of transport can be divided according to its financing:

·  Private: the passenger is the owner of the vehicle in which they traveled.

·  Public: the user is not the owner of the environment in which travels but is managed by third parties. These services can be offered by public or private companies. In turn differ:

- Urban: take place over a city.

- Interurbanos: communication services between cities.

- Attractions: ways that run tourist areas of a given city.

They may be classified depending on the environment in which they move in:

·  Air: moving through the air.

·  Earth: the earth is the means by circulating.

·  Aquatic: media are transiting sea.

Security

Among existing modes of transport, the aircraft is regarded as statistically the safest becoming approximately 20 times safer than automobiles.

The statistics on aircraft accidents refer to only produce about 25 accidents per 28 million takeoffs.

After the plane the safest means of transport are rail and boat. The first victim has fallen from the nineties to about 50% from 50 deaths in 1991 to 23 in 2003. For its part, the ship has a risk of fatal accidents 4 to 8 times higher than the train.

The coach is the means of transport less secure. Spain is the EU country with most killed by bus accident with approximately 400 victims since 1994.

Railroad

One of the main means of ground transportation is the train. This is a mechanical traction vehicle that travels by a route consisting of two rails. Según la velocidad los trenes se dividen en: According speed trains are divided into:

·  Conventional: trains with a maximum speed of 80 km / h and 120 km / h.

·  High speed above 200 km / h speed.

They can also be distinguished according to their characteristics and the place where moving in:

·  Metro: subway passenger who conducts his travels below ground. Londres fue la primera ciudad en disponer de uno. London was the first city to have one.

·  Tram: Railway that runs on rails through the streets of a population. Son de tracción eléctrica. Son of electric traction.

·  Funicular: works through cables and is used mainly to save slopes. Es un mecanismo de dos cabinas ubicadas sobre un rail, de modo que al ascender una la otra desciende. It is a mechanism of two booths on a rail, so to move up one another descends.